Orna Ross was born Aine McCarthy in Waterford in 1960 and grew up in Co Wexford. Her novels are Lovers Hollow (Dublin, Penguin Ireland, 2004); and Dance in Time (Penguin Ireland, 2008), both of which have been reissued under the author’s independent imprint as After the Rising (Font Publications, 2011) and Before the Fall (Font […]
Mark Roper was born in England in 1951, and moved to Ireland in 1980, His poetry collections include The Hen Ark (Calstock, Cornwall, Peterloo Poets 1990/ Galway, Salmon Publishing, 1991), which won the 1992 Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection; Catching The Light (Belfast, Lagan Press, 1997); The Home Fire (Craigavad, Co. Down, Abbey Press […]
Ethel Rohan was born in Dublin. Her story collection is Cut Through the Bone (Seattle, WA, Dark Sky Books, 2010), which was long listed for The Story Prize. She has also published the chapbook Hard to Say (Houghton, MI, PANK, 2011). She lives in San Francisco. Uploaded by Ethel Rohan on 13 Dec 2011 Final, […]
Billy Ramsell was born in Cork in 1977. His first collection is Complicated Pleasures (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2007). Shortlisted in 2005 for a Hennessy award, he lives in Cork. Billy Ramsell at Dedalus Press Billy Ramsell at The National Library of Ireland
John Redmond was born in Dublin in 1967. His collections are Thumb’s Width (Manchester, Carcanet Press, 2001); and MUDe (Carcanet, 2008). His non-fiction is How to Write a Poem (Oxford, Blackwell, 2005); and Poetry and Privacy (London, Seren, 2011). He has edited James Liddy’s posthumous Selected Poems (Dublin, Arlen House, 2011), and is a regular […]
Nell Regan was born in London and grew up in Dublin. Her collections are Preparing for Spring (Galway, Arlen House, 2007/New York, Syracuse University Press, 2008); and Bound for Home (Arlen House, 2011). She has also published a chapbook, Underworld (Belfast, Lapwing, 2004). Among her non-fiction publications is the first biography of Helena Molony, (Female […]
Adrian Rice was born in Belfast in 1958. His first sequence of poems appeared in Muck Island, a collaboration with the artist Ross Wilson. Copies of this limited edition box set are in the collections of The Tate Gallery, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Lamont Library, Harvard University. A second sequence was […]
Keith Ridgway was born in Dublin in 1965. He has published a collection of short stories, Standard Time (Faber & Faber, 2001); a novella, Horses (London, Faber & Faber, 1997}; and the novels The Long Falling (London, Faber & Faber, 1998/ New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1998); The Parts (Faber & Faber, 2003); Animals (London, Forth […]
Gerard Reidy was born in Co Mayo. His collection is Pictures from a Reservation (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1998). He has won numerous national poetry competitions including The Allingham Prize. He lives in Westport, Co Mayo Gerard Reidy’s Website Gerard Reidy at The National Library of Ireland
Maurice Riordan was born in Lisgoold, Co Cork, in 1953. His collections are A Word from the Loki (London, Faber and Faber, 1995), which was a Poetry Book Society Choice; Floods (Faber & Faber, 2000), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize; The Holy Land (Faber, 2007); and The The Water Stealer (Faber, 2013). He […]
Billy Roche was born in Wexford in 1949. He was for many years a singer, fronting his own band, The Roach Band. Best known as a dramatist, he has published one novel, Tumbling Down (Dublin,Wolfhound Press, 1984); and a collection of stories, Tales from Rainwater Pond (Kilkenny, Pillar Press, 2006). His plays include The Wexford […]
Frank Ronan was born in New Ross, Co Wexford in 1963. His first novel, The Man Who Loved Evelyn Cotton (London, Bloomsbury, 1989), received the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Irish Literature Prize. His subsequent novels include A Picnic in Eden (Bloomsbury, 1991); The Better Angel (Bloomsbury, 1992); Lovely (London, Sceptre, 1995); and Home (Sceptre, 2002). His […]
Aidan Rooney (var. Aidan Rooney-Cespedes) was born in Monaghan in 1965. His collections are (as Aidan Rooney-Cespedes) Day Release (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 2000); and (as Aidan Rooney), Tightrope (the Gallery Press, 2008). In 1997 he received the Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Cognac New Irish Writing Award for Poetry. Since 1988 he has taught French […]
Gabriel Rosenstock was born in Kilfinane, Co Limerick in 1949. He writes primarily in Irish and is the author or translator of over one hundred books. His poetry collections include Susanne sa seomra folctha (Baile Átha Cliath, Clódhanna, 1973); Méaram!(Baile Átha Cliath, An Clóchomhar, 1981); Om, An Clóchomhar, 1983); Nihil Obstat (Baile Átha Cliath, Coiscéim, […]
Rosemarie Rowley was born in Dublin in 1942. Her poetry publications include The Broken Pledge (Dublin, Tallaght, 1985); The Sea of Affliction (Dublin, Rowan Tree Press, 1987); Flight into Reality (Rowan Tree Press, 1989), a long poem written terza rima and issued, read by the poet, on audio cassette in 1996; Hot Cinquefoil Star (Rowan […]
Mary Russell was born in Dublin. Her books are The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt (London, Harper Collins, 1986); Please Don’t Call it Soviet Georgia (London, Serpents Tail, 1991); and Journeys of a Lifetime (Dublin, Town House/London, Simon and Schuster, 2002). Her short stories have been anthologised in Phoenix Irish Short Stories, ed. David […]
Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan was born in Dublin. His novels are The Kybe (Dublin, Wolfhound Press, 1983); Reprisal (Wolfhound Press, 1989); On Borrowed Ground (Wolfhound Press, 1993); Ancestral Voices (Wolfhound Press/ Virginia, USA, Vandamere Press, 1995); and In The Shadow of The Ombú Tree (Enniscorthy, Chaos Press, 2005). He lives in North County Dublin Hugh Fitzgerald […]
James Ryan grew up in Co Laois. His novels are Home from England (London, Pheonix House, 1995); Dismantling Mr Doyle (Pheonix House, 1997); Seeds of Doubt (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001); and South of the Border (Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2008) He teaches at the School of English and Drama, UCD, and lives in Dublin. James […]
Liz Ryan was born in Dublin. Her novels include Blood Lines (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1995/New York, St Martin’s Press, 1995, translated as Rukkehr nach Ashamber, Berlin, Rowholt Taschenbuch Verlag, 2006); A Note of Parting (Hodder & Stoughton, 1996); A Taste of Freedom (Hodder & Stoughton, 1997); The Past is Tomorrow (Hodder & Stoughton, 2000); […]
Oran Ryan was born in Dublin. His novels are The Death of Finn (Dublin, Seven Towers, 2006); Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger (Seven Towers 2006); and One Inch Punch (Seven Towers, 2012). His plays for the stage are Don Quixote has Been Promoted (Dublin Ranelagh Arts Festival, 2009); and for the Radio, Preliminary Design […]
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